New measures aimed at restoring endangered salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin could cause downstream ...

Last week, after an Oregon judge directed federal agencies to “spill” more water through Columbia and Snake river dams, ...

Under a partial injunction, dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase fish spill.

In February 2024, it looked like nearly three decades of litigation over the operation of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia ...

Federal funding shortfalls and staff vacancies are putting the Columbia River Basin’s fish hatcheries — and the salmon and steelhead they produce — at risk, experts warn. The potential fallout could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The possibility of removing four Snake River dams — Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam and Lower Granite Dam — ...

Environmental groups and others want to see hydropower operations changed to favor fish survival. Utility groups warn of problems for the power grid A long-running court battle over how to balance ...

On Wednesday, Congress will consider a bill that would abruptly halt decades of momentum toward restoring the Columbia River Basin. House Resolution 2073, known as the “Defending our Dams Act,” ...

At 6:54 p.m. on Saturday, the National Weather Service released a special weather statement until 9 p.m. for Eastern Columbia ...

The Columbia River basin consists of several different physiographic regions. There are alpine and subalpine environments in its mountainous regions (the Cascades, Rockies, and related subchains), an ...

The possibility of removing four Snake River dams — Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam and Lower Granite Dam — has long been a contentious one that has generally split along party ...